Energy and Utilities - Page 17

Regional US law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has laid off a total of 32 staff - including 14 lawyers - from its energy teams in six of its US offices. | 11yrs

A team of lawyers will be built up from July in Perth and Sydney when corporate finance specialist Tim Lester and banking and finance specialist Nicky Lester move to set up the Hogan Lovells presence in the country. | 11yrs

Three partners have already left Pillsbury and are expected to be followed by as many as 12 other lawyers as Winston & Strawn seeks to strengthen its international presence. | 11yrs

Within two months of opening its London base, California-based Cooley has started to act for the UK's largest shale gas explorer, IGas - on a project which sees the 55-lawyer office working alongside Slaughter and May. | 11yrs

Energy specialist Matthew Jones is not seeking a new term in March when his tenure comes to an end - despite taking the region through substantial change and increases in profits. | 11yrs

Texan oil company Moncrief has dropped a US$1.37b claim against Russian rival OAO Gazprom after two Baker Botts defence lawyers spotted an apparent fake document which was central to the Moncrief claim. | 11yrs

Oil giant BP has increased its provisions again for the 2010 oil leak as it estimates total costs to date at US$43.5b in its just-issued results for 2014 Q4. | 11yrs

Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer formally combined forces over the weekend to become a top 50 US practice - and are emphasising their industry expertise in energy, insurance, telecoms, tech, health care, life science and financial services. | 11yrs

Over 100 corporate lawyers in Texas have switched in 2014 from working for local practices to joining the larger national and multinational law firms - either through individual moves or through mergers. | 11yrs

The opening up of Mexican oil and gas reserves to foreigners is creating a surge in demand for the services of law firms based over the border in Texas. | 11yrs

The head of Clyde & Co in the Chinese capital is leaving, just 18 months after Clyde opened there, and moving to Stephenson Harwood where she will head its Greater China energy and resources group. | 11yrs

Former New York mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, a partner in law firm Bracewell & Giuliani, is urging the fast tracking of applications to export natural gas - partly as a way to reduce dependence on Russia. | 11yrs

A war of words has broken out between a Kenyan law firm and its client, a Chinese construction company, over the loss of a multi-billion contract to build a pipeline in Kenya. | 12yrs

The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining company Newmont is seeking an international arbitration against the Indonesian government even though lawyers say the challenge could backfire. | 12yrs

BP is seeking repayments of compensation from 'a vast number' of organisations that have received money in relation to damage they suffered by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in 2010. | 12yrs

Oil giant BP has been rebuffed in its attempt to extend a hold on payments being made to claimants over the 2010 Deepwater Blue oil leak while it makes an appeal to the Supreme Court on the awards procedure. | 12yrs

Houston-based Jason Leif, the first president of the US's Energy Bar Association to come from outside the north-east, says the energy boom is bringing much new work with it for lawyers. | 12yrs

Two years after Allen & Overy began working in Myanmar when sanctions were lifted, the firm has opened an office in the capital Yangon. | 12yrs

The 1,600-lawyer firm is opening its seventh US office by setting up a base in the energy hub of Houston. | 12yrs